Twitter recently betrayed how many people simply didn’t want to hear what the other side had to say about the debate on gay marriage. In the run up to the Supreme Court hearing initial arguments on the legality Proposition 8 the term “unfollow” skyrocketed in usage.

According to analytics outfit Topsy, the term — meaning to stop tracking what someone has to say on Twitter — jumped to roughly ten times its usage over the days prior. As Tuesday’s opening arguments over the legality of California’s Proposition 8 approached — a measure banning same sex marriages — discussion and debate began to heat up on the social network.

In a rough scan of search results for the term most Twitter users were either telling their followers “If you do/n’t like gay marriage, unfollow me” or telling someone with a particular stance on gay marriage, that they were now unfollowing them because of that view.

No matter how the Supreme Court rules these (extremely casual) findings indicates the ease with which people can silo viewpoints on Twitter. One of the biggest criticisms of the way people use Twitter is that they can create echo chambers where they only pay attention to people that reflect their own ideals, rather than trying to understand others that could make them question their own beliefs.

Here are a few samples:

If you’re going to hate on gay marriage, I have to unfollow you. I may be a Republican, but to me love is love.